Minh Le

Minh is the author of Let Me Finish! a debut picture book that will be published by Disney-Hyperion in 2016. By day he works in early childhood policy and in 2010 helped design 826DC‘s Museum of Unnatural History (the only place you can both support youth creative writing and get your daily supply of unicorn tears). He also writes about children’s lit at Bottom Shelf Books and occasionally for the Huffington Post and others. Follow him on Twitter @bottomshelfbks.

A is for Achebe: Who Makes Your Author Alphabet?

As a newish father, it sometimes feels like the only organizing principle of my world is the alphabet. From books ...

RUNAWAY BUNNY starring Liam Neeson

Credit for this mashup goes to reader Kyle Behymer who left this comment on a previous post: Whenever I read ...

Love You Forever: 5 of Hollywood’s Sexiest Men Read to You from Children’s Classics

You know what they say: There is nothing sexier than a man reading a children’s book. Okay, so I don’t ...

Pride and Prejudice Meets Parks and Recreation: A Mashup Universally Acknowleged

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a singular novel in possession of a devoted following must be in want ...

Coloring Outside the Lines: The Diversity Gap in Children’s Literature

Lee & Low Books is a children’s book publisher that specializes in multicultural literature. Since 1991, they have been tracking ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Unread: Taking a Closer Look at Reader Picks

Book Riot recently polled its readers on their Favorite Novels, their Most Hated Novels, and the Novels They Keep Meaning to ...

The Narrative Magic of Picture Books: An Interview with Mac Barnett

If you don’t think picture books can be considered literary fiction, that Harold and the Purple Crayon is strictly child’s ...

Zooey Deschanel as Amelia Bedelia: A (Hypothetical) Match Made in Quirk Heaven

This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most beloved characters in children’s literature, Peggy Parish’s Amelia Bedelia. As ...

A Novel Idea: An Instagram for Books (The Best of Book Riot)

Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of ...

Not all Bunnies and Birthday Cake: Experts on the State of Picture Books

The national news may not have picked this up, but there was an important story out of DC last weekend. ...